Albert Einstein was names by Time magazine as the man of the century in the year 2000. The rationale was that the 20th century will be remembered as the age of scientific innovation and among all scientists it is Einstein that remains the most popular and well respected. I admire Einstein because his genius was not marred by arrogance. He was a staunch pacifist and it is said that he was permanently devastated that his scientific work was used to create the Atomic Bomb. Later on he published an article imploring the USA not to seek a nuclear monopoly and asking that, instead, the UN should be equipped as the world’s nuclear power for the purpose of deterrence.